Legendre UK and Urban Sketch to start on construction of nine-storey scheme next year
Havering council has approved plans by Claridge Architects to replace a nightclub in Romford with 285 co-living homes.
The nine-storey scheme for developers Legendre UK and Urban Sketch will redevelop the former ATIK nightclub, which closed two years ago.
It is the first project for the joint venture partners and comes a year after Urban Sketch acquired the site on the corner of Havana Close and South Street in the heart of Romford Town Centre.
The site’s existing Art Deco building was originally built as a cinema in the 1930s. It was converted into the Time & Envy nightclub in 1999 and passed through several name changes before reopening under the ATIK brand in 2018.
The club’s latest iteration was shuttered in 2024 alongside 16 others across the UK following the administration of Rekom, the country’s largest nightclub operator.
Three other ATIK nightclubs in Windsor, Wrexham and Dartford also closed along with six PRYZM clubs in Birmingham, Leeds, Watford, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Nottingham.
Legendre UK and Urban Sketch said the Romford co-living scheme would include a new mural designed by a local artist which will draw on the artwork associated with the former nightclub and keep a link to the site’s history.
The development will offer 10,000sq ft of internal amenity space including three roof terraces, a gym, a wellness studio, communal kitchen and dining areas, co-working space, a reading room, resident’s lunges, laundry and multi-media room.
A space on the ground floor has been reserved for an independent cafe operator with the scheme also including a new public square and lighting improvements to an adjacent alleyway.
Construction work is expected to start in the first half of next year and complete in spring 2030.
The project team also includes DP9, Match Landscape, XCO2, Velocity, Engineeria, Jensen Hughes, TTC, Local GI, Point 2, Withernay Projects, RSK and DS2.
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